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What is the point of sorting our items for recycling?

A reader asks what's the point of sorting our recycling when the binmen tip it all in the same binwagon? <i>(Image: St Helens Council)</i>
A reader asks what's the point of sorting our recycling when the binmen tip it all in the same binwagon? (Image: St Helens Council)
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CAN anyone from Darlington council refuse department explain why they expect us residents to recycle our refuse i.e. cardboard and paper, cans, plastic etc into different boxes, as when the binmen come they mix it up together and tip it all into the refuse lorry.

A confused resident.

Stan Wilby, Darlington.

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